Andersen is Three

Andersen celebrated his 3rd birthday this week. We've had 3 different "mini-parties" per say and there's still one more to come. On his actual birthday, our family just stayed home and had hot dogs and hamburgers. We had him open some presents. He got a jungle toy from Mom and Dad, a Mack truck from Holly, and a Care Bear Movie granny Ann. He was too involved with his new toys that he didn't want to go out for ice cream as we had planned.

Friday was the second and third birthday celebration. In the morning, Granny and Grandpa Louw took him to the Thanksgiving Point Farm. (Mom and Holly tagged along.) He got to see a bunch of farm animals and he even got to pet a goat and a rabbit. The first animals we went to were the sheep and Holly got a big fright by a sheep that "baaaaaaahhhhed really loud right in her ear. She would have jumped right out of the stroller had she not been strapped in...needless to say, she wanted to be held the rest of the time and observe the other animals from a safe distance. As we walked around some more, Anders kept asking, "Where's the cow?" We did manage them, though the big cows were being lazy and sleeping way in the back of their shady pen, but Granny and Anders got to feed corn to the cute little calf. Anders went on his first pony ride...a true cowboy and since we had 3 more tickets to use up, grandpa stayed behind with the stroller while the rest of us went on a wagon ride pulled by 2horses, which was also fun. After visiting the animals we went to the restaurant there and got a sandwich and Anders got a mini ice-cream cone. Grandpa was a big help maintaining the "dripping" factor. Good thing we just got the free mini size or else the mess would have been even greater.

The third celebration was Friday evening. Layne brought Marin, Natalie, and Seth over for dinner and cake and ice cream. (Rich & Turner were on Father and Sons campout.) So between the farm and dinner, I had to make the birthday cake and pizza. Good thing the kids napped and it all went faster than I thought it would. The pizza was delicious and the cake was cute. We had a fun visit and the Bushell's got Anders some fun gifts...more Cars. He got Doc Hudson as the crew chief and Ramone. He was so excited. They also got him a Spaghetti Factory playdough set and all the kids had fun playing with that. He also got a scooter from mom and dad and granny Ann.

Thanks to everyone that made Andersen's day a special one! Here's a slideshow of all three events combined. Enjoy.

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